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The visit of a SYBIL

LETTER III.

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and Sybilline leaves, which are

scattered in the path of the Gleaner The needless

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apology and an elegy, of which, every stanza

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The same glorious subject! Its superiority to every

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other, whether of Greece or Rome-Solemn invo-
cation to do justice to the theme! - The beams of
Homer, Virgil, and Ossian, quenched in the insuf-
ferable blaze of the "solar tincture," &c.
les, Eneas, Belial, and Belzebub, hide their di
minished heads, and are dragged at the chariot
wheels of the potentates of the draught! - The
chieftains of the powders! and the heroes of the pill!
-Their march into the villages and cities of Eng-
land, to purge them of all intestine enemies-Our
medicine-defended Isle ! - A battle with disease and

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LIST of infallibles! - Specifics from head to foot, ano-
dynes from top to toe-the triumph of the Quacks
over the maladies incident to the human frame, videlicet,
to the hair, the skin, the check, the nose, the nostrils,
the chin, the lips, the teeth, the neck, the breast, the
sides, the back, the bones, the marrow, and all the et-
ceteras within and without!-likewise an account
of the conquest of the said Quacks over the regular-
bred pretenders; yea, and over the grave itself- also
an Io Paan on the complete overthrow of all human
disorders visible and invisible, obvious and mystic, real
and imaginary a grand medical pageant, concluding
with two illustrative facts, from an authentic record

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